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Title IX

Augustana University affirms its commitment to promote the goals of fairness and equity in all aspects of the educational enterprise.

The policies and procedures identified on this website pertain to discrimination and bias related misconduct and include all forms of sexual misconduct such as harassment, non-consensual contact, rape and exploitation. Other inappropriate conduct such as hazing, bullying and stalking is also included here. [1]

Augustana resolves discrimination complaints using a centralized procedure called the Equity Grievance Process. This process is based on an Office for Civil Rights compliant model[2] called the “One Policy, One Process Model,” hereafter referred to as the 1P1P model[3]. The Equity Grievance Process is applicable regardless of the status of the parties involved, who may be members or non-members of the campus community, students, student organizations, faculty, administrators and/or staff.

[1]Recent guidance from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights clarifies that sexual harassment includes all forms of sexual violence including sexual misconduct, exploitation, stalking and other related policies as defined in this publication.

[2]The University is continuing a review of its policies and resolution procedures to ensure that processes, protocols and resources are in compliance with guidance issued by the U.S. Department’s Office for Civil Rights. During this process, content appearing on this website supersedes all print documents and will serve as the essential resource for current practice.

[4] These policies and procedures will be reviewed and updated annually by the Title IX Coordinator and Deputy Coordinators. The Title IX Coordinator may make minor modifications to procedure that do not materially jeopardize the fairness owed to any party. However, the Title IX Coordinator may also vary procedures materially with notice (on the institutional website, with appropriate date of effect identified) upon determining that changes to law or regulation require policy or procedural alterations not reflected in this policy and procedure. Procedures in effect at the time of its implementation will apply. Policy in effect at the time of the offense will apply even if the policy is changed subsequently, unless the parties consent to be bound by the current policy. Date of last review: June 30, 2016.